underpay

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To pay (someone) less than the value of their work; to pay (someone) insufficiently. transitive
    — The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company.
  2. To pay less than is due for (something). transitive
    — The underpaid letter was returned to the sender.

词形变化

underpays present,singular,third-person underpaying participle,present underpaid participle,past underpaid past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English pay
English underpay
From under- + pay.
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